[mythtv-users] Amazon Prime on MythTV

[Matt Emmott]

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 7:58 AM, Ryan Patterson <ryan.goat at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Dan Littlejohn
> <dan.littlejohn at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Has anyone gotten Amazon Prime to work on MythTV?  This is the one thing
> I
> > hate about Netflix and am looking if it makes sense to jump ship (if they
> > start to get a decent number of movies streaming).
>
> I did not do it through Mythbrowser.  But last night I watched some
> Amazon video shows through chromium on my mythfrontend box.  I was
> impressed with what I saw.  In particular there were no
> advertisements.  Yes, thank you!
>
> I have a browser plug-in that automatically disables flash.  So I
> can't remember the last time I actually used flashplayer.  But the
> amazon video flash applet performed quite well.  It loaded quickly and
> didn't hog CPU cycles.  I'm not sure if that is because flashplayer
> has improved since I last used it or what.
>
> I was disappointed to not see an option to use the HTML5 <video> tag.
> I'm sure amazon would have trouble getting the content providers to
> agree to drop the adobe flash DRM.
>
> Integrating Amazon video support into MythTV would be great.  But I
> guess they wont publish an open API for it.  I would love to be proven
> wrong though
>
> -Ryan
>

It does look like they support Linux as a platform.

http://ostatic.com/blog/amazon-com-includes-linux-users-in-new-movie-streaming-service

I may pay the $79 just to show my support. I've been looking for some kind
of scraper via xbmc / navi-x / Boxee / Plex but haven't found anything yet.
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